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2026

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D-Index
136
Citations
81325
World Ranking
53
National Ranking
2

Bernhard Schmid publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard Schmid sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 567 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Bernhard Schmid D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard Schmid sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 136 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Bernhard Schmid is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has made contributions primarily within the domains of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research output covers numerous interrelated subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work is organized around several main topics, reflecting a focus on ecological and vegetation dynamics, plant and animal studies, and the interactions between species distribution and climate change. Other important themes include mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, land use and ecosystem services, forest ecology and management, as well as plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Recent papers by Bernhard Schmid illustrate a range of ecological and environmental research areas. Notable publications include:

  • Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity-soil multifunctionality relationships (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions (2022) published in Science
  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change (2021) published in Ecology Letters
  • Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment (2021) published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Bernhard Schmid frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Keping Ma
  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Xiaojuan Liu
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Shan Li

The venues where Bernhard Schmid has published most frequently are diverse but focused on highly specialized fields related to biology and ecology. These publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Plant Ecology

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

    D. U. Hooper;F. S. Chapin;J. J. Ewel;A. Hector

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Loreau;S. Naeem;P. Inchausti;J. Bengtsson

  • Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services.

    Patricia Balvanera;Andrea B. Pfisterer;Nina Buchmann;Jing Shen He

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

    Forest Isbell;Vincent Calcagno;Andy Hector;John Connolly

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

    I. Tanya Handa;Rien Aerts;Frank Berendse;Matty P. Berg

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community

    Christiane Roscher;Jens Schumacher;Jussi Baade;Wolfgang Wilcke

  • Local adaptation enhances performance of common plant species

    J. Joshi;B. Schmid;M. C. Caldeira;P. G. Dimitrakopoulos

  • General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

    Andy Hector;Yann Hautier;Philippe Saner;Lukas Wacker

  • ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

    E. M. Spehn;A. Hector;J. Joshi;M. Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity-soil multifunctionality relationships.

    Weigang Hu;Jinzhi Ran;Longwei Dong;Qiajun Du

  • JANZEN‐CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

    Jana S. Petermann;Alexander J. F. Fergus;Lindsay A. Turnbull;Bernhard Schmid

  • The effect of nutrient availability on biomass allocation patterns in 27 species of herbaceous plants

    Ivo Müller;Bernhard Schmid;Jacob Weiner

  • Diversity-dependent production can decrease the stability of ecosystem functioning

    Andrea B. Pfisterer;Bernhard Schmid

  • Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

    Debra Zuppinger-Dingley;Bernhard Schmid;Jana S. Petermann;Varuna Yadav

  • No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

    M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

  • Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge: Ecological Monog

    David Hooper;F. Stuart Chapin;John J. Ewel;Andy Hector

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus University of Zurich
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich

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